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about dive indiaOUR PHILOSOPHY
Having dived all over the world – from North Atlantic deep-sea wrecks to Florida to the Mediterranean to Red Sea to Maldives – we have always been drawn to a particular type of dive operation: one offering professional quality service, but in a flexible and relaxed manner - a shop where you feel like hanging out after the dive, having a refreshing post-dive beverage (we recommend “scuba libres”) and swapping travel/dive stories.           

We'd like to think that our dive shop offers just that. We have a passion for diving, and a passion for the Andamans, and all of us here at DIVEIndia – instructors, divemasters, staff, 2 boisterous puppies & 1 grouchy cat – look forward to sharing that passion with you, not just as our customers but also as our friends.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS
DIVEIndia was founded by Vandit Kalia, aka Vinnie. A former corporate drone, a very early midlife crisis (at the ripe old age of 28) made him take a year off as a sabbatical. Despite returning to the corporate world after the sabbatical, he was unable to resist the call of the islands. So he decided to walk away from the rat race and start his own dive operation there. Vandit holds a Staff Instructor rating with PADI, and Divecontrol Specialist Instructor rating with SSI. In addition, he is an experienced technical diver and trimix-certified. His main passion is wreck diving, and his eyes gleam with an unholy light at happy memories of diving the freezing-water wrecks of the North Atlantic, adult diapers and all (he vehemently denies all rumors about needing the diapers before the drysuit). He is currently on a mission to locate historic WW2 era shipwrecks in the Andaman region.

One of our senior instructors is Jackson, whose uncanny ability to spot all sorts of interesting things makes us suspect that he is not from Planet Earth. However, he has not eaten any divers (or the current Cat) yet, so that's good. Actually, Jackson is from the Karen tribe of northern Andamans - the Karens are well-known for their knowledge of the local waters and it shows! Jackson defines coolness underwater (cooler than Dirty Harry and Shaft put together), and we've all learned to stay very close to him in order to maximize our chances of spotting mantas, sharkies and other interesting fishies.

Joining Jackson is his brother, Dixon, another of our full-time instructors. Not only is he a very patient and skilled instructor, he also holds a master's in psychology. Coming soon to a tropical island near you (or very far from you): the world's only "Diving + Counselling" packages.

This year, we have had 2 new additions to our team of instructors - Vikas, who learned to dive in Goa and consequently, goes into raptures every time he sees his own fin in the water and Ilan, the Boy from Ipanema, whose ill-luck with surfboards knows no limits. Vikas is also a budding underwater por-- err, videographer, with a very impressive underwater rig which no one has actually seen him take underwater. Ilan is a surfer dude with a broken surfboard. 'Nuff said.

Our chief divemaster, Johnnie, is Jackson and Dixon's younger brother (a love for water runs in the family, it seems) and has spent more time underwater in the Andamans than above it, apparently. He worked for an environmental agency doing research on turtles, and is an expert freediver as well. He loves to dive, and the hard part is to get him to come up after a dive.

Our other dive leader is Mandy, aka Mondy, aka "Don't Call Me Mandar". Mandar has been a farmer, a mechanical engineer, a yogi and a few other things. Rolling stones have nothing on him. Now he takes time off from being whatever else his fancy catches (union leader? pet psychologist? who knows) be an Assistant Instructor with us. Mandy is a Star Trek junkie, so if you have pointy ears, please bring a pair for him so he can live long and prosper!

Rounding up our professional stuff are the two Lesser Life Forms, aka Divemaster Trainees - Sayeed, the Tamil Heartthrob (who actually has finished off most of his Divemaster requrements but whom we are refusing to certify just to satisfy our base, sadistic urges), and Ivan, another Karen (who, amazingly, is NOT related to Jackson, Dixon and Johnny). Abuse them well!

Behind the scenes, like (a) a puppeeter controlling the puppets or (b) a huge spider weaving webs (you pick your preferred analogy) is Pritha Namjoshi, our resident videographer (who also rarely is seen taking her video system underwater) and gal-who-does-everything-that-needs-to-be-done. She loves nudibranches. It is downright disturbing how much she loves them.

And of course there are the two dogs - Frodo the Golden Retriever (he's the one getting really intimate with your leg) and Sam the Labrador (he's the one stealing your food). They are the ones who really are in charge - us humans exist merely to cater to their every whim and desire!

We do not mention The Cat around here. She's mean.
 
     
             
 
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